Topic: Time For More Creepy Urban Legends - Japan Style! Posted: May 29 2014 at 4:23pm

Kushisake Onna

Her
name means "the woman with a split mouth". If you are going somewhere
late at night by yourself she may jump out at the corner of the street.
You can't run away from her because she can teleport herself in front of
you. She is wearing a surgical mask and a trench coat.
The woman will ask you “Am I pretty?” if you say no, she will chop your
head off with a big ass pair of scissors. It your answer is yes, the
woman pulls away the mask, revealing that her mouth is slit from ear to
ear, and asks “How about now?”
If your answer is no, you will be cut in half. If you say yes, then she
will slit your mouth like hers.

Hitobashira

Hitobashira
or "Human PIllars" in English.
In ancient Japan, people believed that sealing human being in the
construction would make it stronger and stable.
By sealing people in the pillars and in the walls they make sacrifices
to gods and if the gods are pleased the construction lasts longer.
Buildings with human pillars are told to be haunted by the ones sealed
in the walls.

Teke Teke

Teke
teke teke is the sound this creature makes while moving (with its
elbow).
She was once a nice lady who fell in the path (or jumped- there are
different versions) in a subway station. She was cut in half by the
train but her anger and grudge was so intense that her torso is still
looking for vengeance. Despite the lack of legs she can move very fast
and if you are unlucky enough to get caught she will cut you in half
with a scythe she produces.

Aka Manto

Aka
Manto means red cape/cloak.
It's basically an evil spirit haunting the toilets. It will appear when
you sit on the toilet and there is no paper.
It asks "do you want red paper or Blue paper?" (red cape/blue cape in
some versions). If you take the red paper you will be cut into pieces.
If you take the blue paper you will be strangled.
According to some other versions if you choose the red paper your skin
will be ripped off and if you choose blue paper all your blood will be
drained out from your body.

Tomino's Hell

Tomino's
Hell is a cursed poem that kills people who read it out loud.
If you are lucky you won't die but sh*ts will happen anyway.
"Tomino's Hell" is written by Yomota Inuhiko in a book called "The Heart
is Like a Rolling Stone", And was included in Saizo Yaso's 27th
collection of poems in 1919.
The poem is about a Tomino who dies and falls to Hell.

Cow Head

Cow
head is a scary story which can make you die from fright.
One day during a school trip which involved bus travelling, the teacher
started to tell scary stories to entertain the students. When he started
to tell a story called Cow Head all the students started to scream and
beg him to stop but the teacher was in some sort of trance and he
couldn't stop. When he recovered the bus driver and the students had
fainted and were foaming at the mouth.
Some of them couldn't stop sweating and shivering and died a few days
after.

Okiku Doll

Okiku
Doll is a doll wearing a kimono. It once belonged to a little girl,
Okiku. Once she died of a cold, her spirit possessed the doll. and now
its hair grows.
The doll is now in the Mannenji temple.
First its hair was short but it grew over time and it now has long hair.
Nobody knows how the hair continues to grow but scientific researches
concluded that its hair is that of a young child, maybe Okiku's.

Okay we used to live in Okinawa a long time ago and let me tell you the Far East does NOT play when it comes to scary, creepy time. I remember we had to live off base before the military housing was ready and I could not figure out for the life of me what these big stone boxes/shacks were on the sides of the "roads". Creeped me out when I found out they were shrines....shrines everywhere! And later came all the stories and tales. My host family used to love scaring the sheeit out of me! I love the culture but good lawd the ghost stories were just too much for me.

Also, I've never really heard horror tales that had lose-lose situations. There's usually a way to get out, usually unscathed, in a lot of the ones I've heard. Which is why the Kushisake Onna and Ana Manto stories creeped me out. Between the two, at best you'd leave with a large cut on your face, at worst all of your blood will be drained out of your body.

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